"How I Learned What I Learned"

Pittsburgh Public Theater

In a Nutshell

Eugene Lee takes the audience along on one artist’s journey through the African-American experience in one of August Wilson’s last works

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How I Learned What I Learned

The story: In a role originally taken by playwright August Wilson himself, one man examines the reality of the African-American experience through his own Pittsburgh upbringing and eventual discovery of the power of art.

Other Wilson works you might recognize:Fences, The Piano Lesson, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Stepping into Wilson’s shoes: Eugene Lee, a Broadway and TV vet with a long history of performing Wilson; he began his stage career performing in A Raisin in the Sun at then-president Lyndon B. Johnson’s ranch.

Pittsburgh Public Theater

Pittsburgh was about to fall off the theater map when Pittsburgh Public Theater debuted in 1975. Faced with shuttered ticket windows, a dwindling audience, and marquees holding messages like "Goodbye cruel world," founders Joan Apt, Margaret Rieck, and Ben Shaktman were determined to make their company a success. And that determination paid off: their first season's productions of The Glass Menagerie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Twelfth Night raked in critical acclaim and audience fanfare. Ticket sales climbed, and the trio eventually increased their season to six productions. Among these have been classics as well as plenty of new works, such as August Wilson's King Hedley II and Michael Cristofer's Amazing Grace.